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Warning: If you like Zoe or Thomas. Don't Read!! Because this only gets worse.

Where my pretty one lies.. Part 30 Dream



"Why, the complete report is on your desk, and it's not pretty. This girl is a piece of work, my guess is she played the damsel in distress act to get to Jarod."



Thomas Gates house 2:15P.M.

Jason stares out his bedroom window, he can hear his father and grandfather talking to Syd and Broots at the Centre. Closing his eye his imagination takes over and just for a minute he pictures Zoe back in their lives and shivers.

Opening his eyes he goes back to staring out the window, he focus on the small lane between Thomas's house and Miss Parker's. That's when she comes into view. A young girl with long vibrant red curly hair, her blue eye looked puffy from his point of view.

Looking closer the little girl couldn't be any more then four years old, glancing around Jason notices no adult around her. 'She must have lost her parents and is scared.' Jason hurriedly goes outside to help the little girl. Once is the back yard he finds her further back down the lane, he could hear her crying.

Running up to her, he stops a few feet away "Hey, what's wrong?"

Gasps and turns around, 'I was right she is a little girl.' She points her finger at the papers flapping in the wind.

"Mama's going to be mad. Not to allowed play with." She tearfully tells him, he looks around.

"Well I get those for you." With that Jason spends the next half hour gathering up the paper for the little girl. Brunch in his hand he goes up to the now smiling little girl, holds out his hand to give them to her. Her smile lightens up her entire face.

"Jason! There you are. You nearly gave me a heart attack." Says Jarod. "What are you doing?" Swinging his face from hers he seeing his father and grandfather coming towards him.

"Well I am gathering these papers for the little girl here, so her mother is not mad at her," turning back toward the little girl, he notices that she has vanished into thin air.

"What little girl?" asks Jarod looking around.

"The little girl who lost these papers." Jason says as he too starts to look around for her "She was just right here."

The three star to look for the little girl. They inch down the line. Ethan comes upon them, "What are you doing?"

They stop and look at Ethan. "We're looking for a little girl who lost these papers but we can't seem to find her." Jason hands the papers to Ethan. He goes back to looking for the little girl.

"Well if you two move any further down this lane you'll wind up in Miss Parker's back yard." Ethan shakes his head then shuffles the papers in his hands.

"Holy SHIT!" Shouts Ethan, his eyes were practically bulging out of his head and a distinct red blush was spreading across his face. "Dad, you really should look at this." Everyone goes up to Ethan looking at the papers in his hands.

"What?"

"Gross."

"Going be sick."

Thomas Gates house 3:15 P.M.

On the kitchen table were the papers the little girl lost. Jarod, Jason and Major Charles quickly put them into separate piles. When they were done there was a total of five piles.

Each member of the family took one when that individual was done and ready to inform the group they would turn their pile over face down-words. They agreed earlier that Major Charles would go first then Jarod then Ethan then Jason and last Emily.

"Well, in my pile it consist of tests run on Jason and Michael when they were babies to see if they possessed their mother's gift. According to them Jason doesn't but Michael did."

"Thanks Dad. Well in my pile it contains pornographic pictures Zoe took of her and her lovers Lyle and Cox. Thanks to the date stamp on them, she could be pregnant by either of them or me."

"Well, brother. My pile has an amino and a paternity test. I can't read the results because of the mud on them. The strange thing was it didn't match the papers you confiscated off Miss Parker. See look here," Ethan points to the papers, "the code on this one looks to be a year old, and on this one you are the father and this one which is even older. But on this set, which is Zoe's the test is incomplete, I think a copy could be in the Center mainframe."

"My pile is just some treatment Miss Parker is on. Nothing big or anything note worthy from what I gathered it's about her ulcer. It looks like her doctor wants her on total bed rest." The group laughs at the pure idiocy of the doctor's comment.

"Well, I think I can beat all of you. In my pile there is information on Subject A 13509. The Centre didn't break her; in fact she refused to belief Jarod and went looking for her babies on her own. She even went as far as protecting mom from the Centre, until they find out. That's all in my pile."

The ticketing of the grandfather clock tells the family it's time to get moving. With everything packed and being piled into the car, Jason walks back to the backyard, glancing around he tries again to spot the little girl.

"I know. I would love to say thank you to her, myself. But those papers come from the Centre, which means her mother is a Centre employee." Says Jarod as he places a hand on his son's shoulder.

"Yeah, I know. I just don't want her to get hurt."

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Well? *Major* hints of things to come. Dream